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UC Santa Cruz Confessions was a Facebook page that allowed UCSC students to anonymously post about (almost) anything they wanted. I started the page in December 2012, and within months it grew to over 8,000 likes and averaged around one hundred daily submissions. I retired the page in June 2014. In August 2016, Facebook deleted the page for having too many violations of the Facebook Community Standards.

To protect anonymity, all confessions were posted by the page itself. Early on, I collected confessions through Survey Monkey; once the page outgrew that, I threw together a website and hosted it on my roommate's server. Eventually, I redesigned the site (what you see here) and moved it to ucsantacruzconfessions.com.

I never got around to automating the posting system, or hooking with the Facebook API, but I did add a Craigslist-esque email relay system that allowed confessors to anonymously receive email. Note that the site was developed without version control, so the git history won't tell you much.

I'm releasing the site's source code under the Apache License. (I should've done that when I retired the page, but the thought didn't occur to me until recently). The master branch contains the site's code as it was when the page was active; the disabled branch reflects the site's current state.

I don't intend to work on this any further, but if you have any questions, contact me at administrator@ucsantacruzconfessions.com.

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